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Vector monitor, the Glossary

A vector monitor, vector display, or calligraphic display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s.^[1]

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Aalto University

Aalto University (Aalto-yliopisto; Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland.

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Aliasing

In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing is the overlapping of frequency components resulting from a sample rate below the Nyquist rate.

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An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Armor Attack

Armor Attack is a multidirectional shooter designed by Tim Skelly and released as an arcade video game by Cinematronics in 1980.

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Asteroids (video game)

Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers.

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Bitmap

In computing, a bitmap (also called raster) graphic is an image formed from rows of different colored pixels.

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Bracknell

Bracknell is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the borough of Bracknell Forest.

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Calligraphic projection

Calligraphic projection is a system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface, as in a standard pixel-based display.

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Cathode ray

Cathode rays or electron beams (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. Vector monitor and cathode-ray tube are cathode ray tube.

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Computer graphics

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.

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Computer-aided design

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

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Display device

A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).

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Electromagnetic coil

An electromagnetic coil is an electrical conductor such as a wire in the shape of a coil (spiral or helix).

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Etch A Sketch

Etch A Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy invented by André Cassagnes of France and subsequently manufactured by the Ohio Art Company.

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Farnborough International Airshow

The Farnborough International Airshow is a trade exhibition for the aerospace and defence industries, where civilian and military aircraft are demonstrated to potential customers and investors in Farnborough, Hampshire.

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Fighter aircraft

Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.

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Flood gun

A flood gun is an electromechanical device that provides a steady flow of low-energy electrons to a desired target or "flood area." Typically, the target is an area on an insulator or semiconductor where another "writing gun" has just left a net positive charge.

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Head-mounted display

A head-mounted display (HMD) is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet (see helmet-mounted display for aviation applications), that has a small display optic in front of one (monocular HMD) or each eye (binocular HMD).

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Head-up display

A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Hot cathode

In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic emission.

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IMLAC

IMLAC Corporation was an American electronics company in Needham, Massachusetts, that manufactured graphical display systems, mainly the PDS-1 and PDS-4, in the 1970s.

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics.

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John Bertrand Johnson

John Erik Bertrand Johnson (October 2, 1887 – November 27, 1970) (né Johan Erik Bertrand) was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist.

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Jonathan Zenneck

Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (15 April 1871 – 8 April 1959) was a German physicist and electrical engineer who contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art.

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Lenz's law

Lenz's law states that the direction of the electric current induced in a conductor by a changing magnetic field is such that the magnetic field created by the induced current opposes changes in the initial magnetic field.

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Light pen

A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction with a computer's cathode-ray tube (CRT) display.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security.

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Monochrome

A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color).

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Omega Race

Omega Race is a shoot 'em up arcade video game designed by Ron Haliburton and released in 1981 by Midway.

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Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope (informally scope or O-scope) is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying voltages of one or more signals as a function of time.

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Penetron

The penetron, short for penetration tube, is a type of limited-color television used in some military applications.

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Phosphor

A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy.

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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Pixelation

In computer graphics, pixelation (or pixellation in British English) is caused by displaying a bitmap or a section of a bitmap at such a large size that individual pixels, small single-colored square display elements that comprise the bitmap, are visible.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Raster graphics

smiley face in the top left corner is a raster image. When enlarged, individual pixels appear as squares. Enlarging further, each pixel can be analyzed, with their colors constructed through combination of the values for red, green and blue. In computer graphics and digital photography, a raster graphic represents a two-dimensional picture as a rectangular matrix or grid of pixels, viewable via a computer display, paper, or other display medium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor

Also known as QuadraScan, Random scan, Random scanning, Vector CRT, Vector display, Vector displays, Vector scan, Vector scanning, X-Y Display, Xy display.

, Vector graphics, Vectrex, Virtual reality, Visual artifact, Whirlwind I, Wire-frame model.

Vector monitor, the Glossary

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